Stet An Editor's Life Andrea L. Purvis comic re-working of Waugh's own

comic re-working of Waugh's own divorce

few literary voices are as distinctive

The Facemaker places Gillies's ingenious surgical innovations alongside the poignant stories of soldiers whose lives were wrecked and repaired

the erotic and the need for female solidarity

Stet An Editor's Life Andrea L. Purvis comic re-working of Waugh's ownDiana Athill helped shape some of the most celebrated books in modern literature. For nearly five decades, she edited (and nursed and coerced and coaxed) writers including Jean Rhys, V. S. Naipaul and Philip Roth. From the pleasures, intrigues and complexities of a life spent among authors and manuscripts to an account of Diana's own turn to writing, this is the story of an illustrious career.